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Mosaic Literary Magazine
Launched in 1998, Mosaic is a quarterly magazine exploring the literary landscapes of Black and Latino writers. Each issue contains a unique blend of essays, profiles, and reviews. MosaicMagazine.org
 

Education
The Literary Freedom Project provides educators with lesson plans and curricula based on the content of each issue of Mosaic Literary Magazine. Each plans serves to use work by writers of African and Latin descent as a connective tool to a variety of subjects: history, social studies, English.
 

The Reverse Festival provides a platform for literature-based creative thinking and knowledge sharing. Each year we invite educators, community and arts organizations, and artists to participate.

• Reverse Festival 2008
  Friday & Saturday, November 14 & 15
  Panels, workshops, readings centered on the editorial output of the first 10 years of Mosaic Literary Magazine. And, the introduction of a redesigned Mosaic, which will incorporate contemporary African-American literature lesson plans for high school educators.
  Location: TBD
   

• Reverse Festival 2007
  no festival held
   

• Reverse Festival 2006
  Friday & Saturday, November 10 & 11
  Youth film presentation and new-media workshops
  Click here for details
   

• Reverse Festival 2005
  no festival held
   

• Reverse Festival 2004
  Saturday, October 2
  A screening of the PBS documentary I’ll Make Me A World, which features Gwendolyn Brooks
  
  Panel: Digitizing Words
  Using digital media to express yourself
  Troy Johnson, AALBC.com; DuEwa Frazier, poet and publisher; James Lisbon, AMag founder; Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, poet and blogger
  
  Poetry readings and open mic
  Samiya Bashir, R. Erica Doyle, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor
   

• Reverse Festival 2003
  Saturday, September 20
  Reverse Festival 2003: Flix, Flow & Freestyle  launched the inaugural festival with a strong line-up of some of the smartest wordsmiths–legends from the birth of spoken word to the current group of torchbearers; an open mic session; a panel on independent media and publishing; and film screenings that include a documentary on the life of a seminal poet.
  
  Panel: Vocal Cords: Independent Publishing in a Dependent Age focuses on the urgency and importance of independent media and publishing. Lisa Moore, Red Bone Press; Annette Atim Otim, Indigo Magazine; Glenda Johnson, The Citizen; and Carolyn Butts, African Voices.
  
  Film screening: A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
  
  Poetry Reading: Samiya Bashir, Roger Bonair Agard, Willie Perdomo, and Victoria Sammartino
  
   

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